Music is an experience, an intentional work of storytelling, and a means of expression that uses sound, lyricism and imagery to convey direct or underlying themes. The curated illustrations and ...

Music videos in the 1980s were to music what the album cover art of the 1970s was to musicians. You bought hook, line, and sinker into these albums based on their cover art, not the snippets you might ...

If you can believe it, it’s been 65 years since the Grammy Awards highlighted the best album cover of the year.

Nirvana’s Nevermind is one of the most instantly recognizable album covers in music history. Aside from getting some parents to agree to throwing their baby in a pool, the artwork seems fairly ...

I wonder if they’re going to go with this or Mayhem for the submission. Harlequin is obviously the better cover with a more compelling backstory but Mayhem is the stronger album and sadly, Harlequin ...

Throughout history, Black women have given us some amazing music, and many of those great songs have come in the most beautiful packaging – iconic album covers which showcase museum-worthy artwork. If ...

Perfume Genius has some of the most striking album covers in recent memory. Take the defiant pose Mike Hadreas, donned in a metal vest, assumes on 2014’s Too Bright. There’s also the way his shirtless ...

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

I was doing my predictions and it hit me that the Best Album Cover award actually goes to the art director(s) – not necessarily the designer, illustrator, or photographer. For example, just because ...